On Sunday, Mr. Trump abandoned his trip’s scripted messaging, unloading on Twitter against the “haters and fools” pressing the investigation into his campaign’s Russian ties. And he lashed back after North Korea described him as a “lunatic old man,” calling its leader “short and fat.”

• Our reporters took the temperature at the largest and most secretive U.S. intelligence branch, the National Security Agency, gauging the effect of the catastrophic security breach that first emerged in 2016.

Current and former officials said the so-called Shadow Brokers’ repeated release of U.S. secrets, including hacking tools used to spy on other countries, had ruined morale and called into question the agency’s ability to protect potent cyberweapons.

“They have the whole law enforcement system and intelligence system after them,” one said of the mysterious hackers. “And they haven’t been caught.”

And at climate talks now underway in Bonn, Germany, a shadow U.S. delegation, including Al Gore, Jerry Brown and Michael Bloomberg, is trying to convince other nations that the U.S. has not “gone dark” on climate change.

Often praised for being rigorous about her royal obligations, the queen, 91, delegated the duty to Charles, 68, in a move seen by observers as a major step in the shift to the monarchy’s next generation.

• Japan, Canada, Mexico and eight other countries that together account for about a sixth of global trade said over the weekend they were resurrecting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, without the U.S. The new deal could be announced as soon as early next year.

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•Thousands of far-right nationalists marched through Poland’s capital, Warsaw, over the weekend. Since 2009, the annual Independence Day march has become a magnet for white supremacists and far-right groups. [The New York Times]

• A senior U.N. official vowed to raise the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority, especially sexual violence and torture, with the International Criminal Court. [Reuters]

• New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, called Australia’s handling of the refugee crisis on Manus Island “not acceptable” and said she would again bring it up with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the Asean summit meeting in Manila. [ABC]

• Spain’s prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, visited Catalonia a day after a massive pro-independence march. He urged a huge turnout in next month’s elections to return the region to “normality.” [The New York Times]

• In a rare collaboration, China and Taiwan are working together to predict earthquakes from space. [South China Morning Post]

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The designer, Clifford Holland, oversaw many innovative developments for the pair of 1.6-mile tubes, including meeting the extraordinary challenge of guaranteeing sufficient ventilation. Highly stressed, he died of a heart attack at 41.

Perhaps we’re more used to taking note of the competition for the world’s tallest building (currently the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, with a Saudi contender, the Jidda Tower, hoping to complete construction in 2019).

But there’s a global race on for tunnels, too. Europe currently claims the longest traffic tunnels: a 35-mile Swiss achievement; the 31-mile “Chunnel” under the English Channel; and, in Norway, the singular Laerdal Tunnel, which has even hosted weddings.